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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.
This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system,...
The jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.
This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system,...
3) Clerks II
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Ten years later, slackers Dante and Randal have become "funployees" at Mooby's fast food. Dante announces plans to leave New Jersey with his fiancee?, and Randal plans a shocking going-away party.
5) McDonald's
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about the McDonald's Corporation. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"-- Provided by publisher.
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JMT Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
In December of 2002, McDonald's had to shut down their restaurants in Bolivia. The company cited financial problems, but the real reasons were to be found elsewhere. Bolivia may be a small, poor nation on the global market, but a country's fierce local food culture can be sometimes a more powerful factor than economic clout. In his first feature-length documentary, Fernando Martinez shows what happened, a story driven by the characters behind the...
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Do you dare find out what's happening behind the counters of your neighborhood fast-food joint? Then grab a bucket and dive into one of the creepiest graphic novels of the year! Supersized: Strange Tales From a Fast-Food Culture is an entertaining - and at times gut-wrenching - series of stories focusing on America's ubiquitous and potentially destructive fast-food culture. A perfect companion to Super Size Me, the graphic novel will bridge the gaps...
8) Supersize Me
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Oscar-nominated director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of indoctrinating young...
9) Burger Wuss
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English
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Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.
10) McLibel
Publisher
Cinema Libre Distribution
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Two Greenpeace activists were among a goup who distributed a leaflet outlining the wrong doings on various fronts by McDonald's Corporation. Instead of appologizing as required under British law, they fought them in court with a minimal budget and no staff costing McDonald's millions of pounds in court costs.
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
2015-
Language
English
Description
Having suffered defeat at the hands of a plucky hero, former Devil King Sadao Maou and his general Shiro Ashiya have been stripped of magical power and banished to Earth where they must navigate the complexities of life in modern-day Tokyo.
13) Fast food nation
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
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Business builders volume 3
Publisher
Oliver Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Profiles ten entrepreneurs who started fast food businesses, including Fred Harvey (Harvey House), Walter Anderson and Billy Ingram (White Castle), J.F. McCullough and Harry Axene (Dairy Queen), Maurice and Richard McDonald and Ray Kroc (McDonald's), Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken), and Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza).
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary film, Super Size Me, won him resounding applause and a worldwide release that broke box-office records. Audiences were captivated by his experiment, during which he gained twenty-five pounds, his blood...
17) Good burger
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1997
Language
English
Description
When Mondo Burgers' high-tech hamburger haven open across the street from the tiny Good Burger diner, it looks like the diner is done for, that is until Ed formulates a secret sauce that brings hundreds of new customers to their door. However, the manager of Mondo Burger is determined to get his hands on the sauce and put Good Burger out of business. Meanwhile, Ed and Dexter must rescue Otis, the world's oldest fast food employee, from the Demented...
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Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A&W Root Beer. Foster's Freeze. IHOP. Der Wienerschnitzel. See's Candy. Jack in the Box. You name the American food icon, and chances are its roots are in California. Food historian and chef George Geary tells the remarkable stories of the early 20th-century food startups that captured America's hearts and stomachs, from Bob's Big Boy to McDonald's, Winchell's Donuts to In-N-Out, Peet's Coffee to Taco Bell. With more than 200 historic and contemporary...
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